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I recently found one of the funniest examples of the Flehmen response I've seen. Check out this goat at the No Regrets Farm Sanctuary in Monroe, Oregon -- nose in the air, lips all aquiver. He looks goofy as can be, but I love him. -- Read the rest ...

This past Friday, Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani joined educator and Gaza advocate Rachel Griffin Accurso, also known as Ms. Rachel, to sing to several dozen children at a school in Lower Manhattan. After singing "The Wheels on the Bus," they ...

Comedian and professional rapscallion Ben Palmer's motto is "You Can Be Anything." Over the years, he's pretended to be everyone from ChatGPT to Cracker Barrel to poke fun at right-wing outrage, but his latest stunt -- pretending to be an ICE agent ...

Americans have soured on ICE. According to Axios, a YouGov poll of over 2,600 U.S. adults conducted on January 7 -- the same day an ICE officer fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis -- found that 52 percent disapprove of how ICE is ...

"Sleep is just a bad habit." So declared Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion house, in a 1943 TIME article announcing his latest innovation: Dymaxion sleep. Fuller's theory was that humans have a ...

TinyLVT is a web app that applies a 19th-century economic idea to modern resource-sharing problems. The concept comes from Henry George, whose "single tax" philosophy argued that the value of land belongs to everyone, not just whoever happens to ...

Researchers at Keele University have proven what stubbed-toe sufferers have long known: swearing actually helps with pain. According to Wikipedia, in a 2009 study published in NeuroReport, Richard Stephens and colleagues found that subjects could ...

For most of the past year, Democrats who floated impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem were on the fringes. Then ICE shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, and according to city officials,

Iceberg A-23A has been around since 1986, when it broke off from Antarctica at nearly twice the size of Rhode Island. It spent more than 30 years grounded in the shallow waters of the Weddell Sea before breaking free in 2020, then got stuck spinning ...

As a police officer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Ross Walden represents the government and is invested with its power, authority and qualified immunity from criminal prosecution. Odd, then, that he would have a tattoo representing the Three Percenters,